Editorial: Scrap the Church?

06/07/2016 | Reform

There are two stories in the Gospels about Jesus visiting places of worship. In the first, they try to kill him; in the second, he trashes the place. What kind of relationship does that suggest between Christ and the Church?

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Editorial: Prodigal son, the remix

27/05/2016 | Reform

Here’s a story for Father’s Day. There was a son. Let’s call him the prodigal son. And there was a father. Let’s call him the father.

Growing up was a miserable experience for the prodigal son. He didn’t have his … Read More

Editorial: Tax and Jesus

22/04/2016 | Reform

Considering how little Jesus had to say about EU membership, the housing crisis and whether you have to sing the national anthem, it’s refreshing to find him talking directly about front page news. Should we or should we not pay … Read More

Editorial: Let’s hear it for Reform’s distributors

27/03/2016 | Reform

Our apologies to all readers who received their copy of Reform a week late last month – which is a lot of you. A truck broke down, causing Reform’s distribution team to miss the dispatch deadline, and though individual … Read More

Editorial: Jesus versus the family

23/02/2016 | Reform

There are some things Jesus said that I just don’t like. I’ve come to realise this quite recently and quite reluctantly, but it’s true. They include pretty much everything he has to say about family.

When his mother and brothers … Read More

Editorial: Give radicalism a chance

22/01/2016 | Reform

Words can mean different things in different contexts, can’t they? I once asked a Reform interviewee, who was telling me about the great work he had pioneered, what records he’d kept. His eyes lit up and he started talking about … Read More